ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

chance; respicere finem [Lat.]; keep a sharp lookout &c (vigilance) 459; forewarn &c
668.
Adj. foreseeing &c v.; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious &c (intelligent) 498;
weatherwise † ; provident &c (prepared) 673; prospective &c 507.
Adv. against the time when.
Phr. cernit omnia Deus vindex [Lat.]; mihi cura futuri [Lat.]; run it up the flagpole and
see who salutes.
511. Prediction -- N. prediction, announcement; program, programme [Brit.] &c (plan)
626; premonition &c (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology † ,
prognostication, premonstration † ; augury, auguration † ; ariolation † , hariolation † ;
foreboding, aboding † ; bodement † , abodement † ; omniation † , omniousness † ; auspices,
forecast; omen &c 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth † , soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal
gazing; divination; necromancy &c 992.
[Divination by the stars] astrology † , horoscopy † , judicial astrology † .
[Place of Prediction]. adytum prefiguration † , prefigurement; prototype, type.
[person who predicts] oracle &c 513.
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate † , tell
fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c 668.
presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow † ;
portend; foreshow † , foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify † , ominate † , signify, point
to.
usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.
hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair,
promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64.
[predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience] extrapolate,
project.
Adj. predicting &c v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic † , fatidical † ; vaticinal, oracular,
fatiloquent † , haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise † .
ominous, portentous, augurous † , augurial, augural; auspicial † , auspicious; prescious † ,
monitory, extispicious † , premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
Phr. coming events cast their shadows before [Campbell]; dicamus bona verba [Lat.];
there buds the promise of celestial worth [Young].
[Divination: list] by oracles, Theomancy † ; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts,
Psychomancy † ; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy † ; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by
appearances in the air, Aeromancy † , Chaomancy † ; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by
meteors, Meteoromancy † ; by winds, Austromancy † ; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy,
Haruspicy † , Hieromancy † , Hieroscopy † ; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy † ,
Hieromancy † ; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy † ; by the entrails of
fishes, Ichthyomancy † ; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy † ; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy † ; by
smoke from the altar, Capnomancy † ; by mice, Myomancy † ; by birds, Orniscopy † ,
Ornithomancy † ; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy, Alectromancy † ; by fishes,
Ophiomancy † ; by herbs, Botanomancy † ; by water, Hydromancy † ; by fountains,
Pegomancy † ; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy † ; by meal,
Aleuromancy † , Alphitomancy † ; by salt, Halomancy † ; by dice, Cleromancy † ; by arrows,
Belomancy † ; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy † ; by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy † ;